Letting go

 

 "Do not lust (want) for it gives way to the desire to possess and the desire to possess incites murder."   Buddhist saying

 I see the word want as meaning dissatisfaction and the word murder as referring to the frustration, envy, greed, anger etc...  a dissatisfied state of being can incite.

Life's lesson is one of letting go.



 
Journalling yesterday.....

Have no fixed plan
No expectation
Just this moment



Want nothing
But what is given
right now



"Let all go dear
              so comes love" e.e cummings

Weekending

First blossom.




Ice cold, rushing streams...



 



Small, busy girls...



Home time piggy backs...



 Quiet morning, knitting, pattern making, writing with paper and ink.

Paper doll making.

Doll dress making with Tilda, the best assistant seamstress,  pin counter and thread cutter in all the world!

Some bickering, tired girls, teething and midnight cuddles downstairs till heavy bodies fell asleep in arms ready to be carried back to bed.

Tilda saying that everything she likes is "her favourite and her best!"

Braving biting winds and slushy muddiness to play in wild open spaces.

Nola and Fina "cooking" leaf pies together.

 A pile of boots in a very soggy porch.

Happy doll photography for a friend.

Thinking about buying seeds and plans for the Spring garden.

Weekending with Amanda  @ Habit of Being

This Moment

Joining Soulemama today for {This Moment}

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.

If you're inspired to do the same, leave a link to your 'moment' in the comments for all to find and see.

Have a wonderful weekend :)

 

A Saturday Song

{This Moment}

Joining Soulemama today for {This Moment}

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.

If you're inspired to do the same, leave a link to your 'moment' in the comments for all to find and see.

Have a wonderful weekend :)

 

Singing along to this song with Daddy

Yarn Along - Craft On

Linking up with Ginny at Small Things and Frontier Dreams today

Nola's little vest is finished.

 I used  the owl cable panel for my littlest owl lover.

Crocheted the borders and embroidered some little stars on the garter stitch bodice on a whim. 

Here is my sweet girl with the very beautiful platinum winter sun shining brightly in our V E R Y muddy garden today. 

 I think I'm going to have to hose down everyone's boots! 

Even the snowman the girls made is muddy? 

Rather photogenic unfortunately.

The piles of sycamore leaves that seemed so heavenly - crisp,  throw-able, crunch-able and even fallrightinto but months before are now making some lovely mulch on the lawn. 

Nola of course, is delighted by all these details especially the mud, always the mud! 

Toddlers make you see life as it really is don't they? 

Full of wonder and texture and colour and curiosity...

Out in the garden watching Emmy plant out our little Christmas tree

Gratitude Sunday

Nola in her little bonnet.

Thoughtful...

Silly

• Snow fluttering down from the still, white sky this morning. Lot's of squeals of delight and jumping on  beds.
• A lovely fat stack of new library books!
• Seraphina calling her new shoes "clippy clops"
• The first snowdrops, peeping through the ground.
• Boo's excitement at dissecting owl pellets! "Wow, look, bones!"
• Lovely comments from our annual home school inspection. More than the comments about the girls work, which I was nervous didn't amount to enough "evidence". I was most touched when she said how warm and loving the atmosphere of our home felt. That is everything to me.
• Watching a fun old movie together curled up on the sofa.
• Going on a date to see a late showing of The Hobbit and feeling a bit teenagerish :)
• Starting a really interesting read. And hoping to see the film soon too!

Joining Taryn at Wooly Moss Roots for Gratitude Sunday

Nola

Baby Speak

Random Nola vocabulary... just because I have to remember these small but oh so significant details:)...They go by so fast!

ewaawa = The song "Zousan the Elephant" by Elizabeth Mitchell. Nola requests elephant whenever she is sad or sick or just wants a cuddle. It's been her favourite song since really little, never failing to calm and soothe her.

gop = stop - multipurpose
wahwah = milk
gom = gone
geegee = jesus
wuvoo = love you
gagoo mama = thank you mama
ooop = soup
oo - ooos,  baa baaas and meeowws = monkeys, sheep and cats  (she identifies animals by the sounds they make)

Her favourite animal are owls like Fina's was at the same age. She loves their  "big wownd aeyees".

She tries to do ballet practice with her sisters now, I can't actually describe how cute this is.
She loves to roly-poly.

She loves to draw constantly, or paint, or just plunge her hand into the water jar or dip her fingers in the watercolors.

She very much dislikes bedtimes. And sleeping in general. There is just too much fun stuff to do when you're awake right?

Today she woke after nap time and ran up to Fina shouting Beena, Beena, wuvoo, wuvoo, kissumee now (see above for translation)

She loves to drop her animals and blankets out of her cot while innocently saying Dwopt it and obviously expecting it to be picked up in a timely manner.

 She loves the i-pad (which she is not really allowed to use)  because it has "picters". She calls the i-pad a Bubabee.

When Tani gently tells her for the 19th time in a row that she can't play with the Bubabee she tilts her head and in a very super cute, optimistically high pitched voice says, clear as day i-pad?

She does not take to meals but loves to snack on crunchy foods such as veggie sticks, fruit, bread sticks, cereals, rice crackers and prawn crackers.

She knows that the girls will do anything for her and is a wee bit of a princess (in the nicest possible way)

She loves wool roving and often tries to steal a piece and run off with it saying softie, softie. She loves to rub soft things on her cheek and nose.

She has a favourite blankie which is super soft.

If she grabs something she is not meant to have she will run with it and throw it as soon as you catch up with her.

Today, she did her first wee wee in her potty!!! We are all very proud.

But this Mama is a little silly and sad too knowing that she is just growing up too fast already.

 Here is the beginnings of a little vest for Nola.

 I'm using some lush Rowan Savannah DK cotton /silk yarn in turquoise.

New Year Dreaming...

 

A friend gave us this beautiful Christmas candle decoration! (above) What a gift, the children found it magical and stared at it in wonder in the candle light of many an evening. It reminded me of all my German grandmother's wooden Christmas ornaments! It will be treasured for years to come!

 

 

 

 

(note the pictures below are from our new Year Day walk in our favourite spot.

 

Boo had a really quiet birthday. 

Her big present was a beautiful wooden xylophone.

She is such a sweet and gentle spirit. 

Although it was such a quiet day, she said it was the "very best birthday ever"

 

 

Faith, kitchening, gardening, keeping the home tidy and comfortable. Friends, crafting, creating and learning about things that are relevant to us and deeply interest us. 

These are the essentials. 

Anything extraneous that causes stress to any of the most important things must be put aside.

These are the quiet and simple resolutions that I am making this coming year.

 

  

 

 

 

Matilda has lost 4 teeth along the top of her mouth and two along the bottom over the last few months. 

With these physical changes have come great leaps in maturity and independence. 

I find myself missing her babyhood while being inspired by the funny, creative, quirky character she is becoming. 

In February she will turn seven. 

A very important transitional age in the Steiner philosophy.

It is the age where a child will truly descend into their body and begin to move from purely their will into their heart.

It is the age where imagination begins to bud and blossom.

 

 

 

 

This year I hope to be strong in my vision, yet soft in my application of that vision, always ready to drop all for love whatever that love might look like or ask of me.

 

I have thought about what my word of the year should be and as usual many different words came to mind so I decided to write the ones that spoke most clearly to my soul and put them in a hat and leave it to fate.

The chosen word for the year ended up being "gentle"

I think it is nudging me toward an unforced,  natural, path and pace.

Reflecting the words, that I find, in my life, turn to time and time again. 

Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

Gentle, Rest, Peace.